Saturday, Jan. 16, the SUN RHYTHM SECTION. a Memphis rockahilly sextet Music after nine. Hot vittles. MICHAEL'S PUB. 211 E 55th St (758-2272)- Unicorns and lions on the walls, well-heeled cats on the banquettes, and a solid rear guard, immodestly called the Great American Swing Band, on the dais WALT LEVINSKY. a Benny Goodman alumnus, is its leader. The band packs up on Saturday, Jan. 9, and on Tuesday, Jan. 12, a group of Django-istes- five keepers of the hot-jazz flame-led by guitarist FRANK VIGNOLA begins a three-week visit. Shows Tuesdays through Saturdays at nine-thirty and eleven-thirty. Dining Closed Sundays. RITz. 119 E. 11th St (254-2800)-Fifty years ago, people practiced the jitterbug and the foxtrot in this ballroum; today's patrons lis- ten mainly to rock, which issues from speakers the size of mobile homes, and some- times engage in a combination of exercise and intimacy known as slam dancing Friday, Jan. 8, Urban Blight and the CUCUMBERS; Sat- urday, Jan. 9, the Cruzados and the LYRES; and Friday, Jan. 15, the FEELIES. Shows begin at nine Sundays through Thursdays, and at eleven Fridays and Saturdays. SPEAKEASY. 107 Macdougal St. (598-9670)-The site, many moons ago, of Rienzi's, a coffee- house on the beaten path; nowadays, it's home to folkies, bluegrass fiddlers, and others of a non-electric bent. Shows nightly from about eight-thirty. Dining. SWEET BASIL. 88 Seventh Ave. S., at Bleecker St. (242-1785)-MC COY TYNER. a pianist whose thundering, rhythmically insistent style works like an incantation on many people, holds forth in this Village meetinghouse Tuesdays through Sundays. GIL EVANS. the wispy white- haired pianist and wizard arranger who long ago fell under the spell of funk and rock rhythms, conducts hIS orchestra on Mondays. Shows from ten Dining. SWEETWATERS, 170 Amsterdam Ave., at 67th St. (873-4100)-What would a night club be without smoke, mirrors, and a white piano? It wouldn't be this sleek jazz and soul room. RUTH BROWN. a rhythm-and-blues singer who made several hit records ("Lucky Lips," "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean") for Atlantic in the fifties, performs Friday and Saturday. Jan 8-9. Music after nine. Dining. TRAMPS. 125 E 15th St. (777-5077)-"Irish" is what the canopy above the entrance to this bar says, but rock and roll is what the boys and girls in the back room mainly do. Two veteran rock-and-roll songwriters, OTIS BLACKWELL and DOC POMUS. will be on hand Fnday and Saturday, Jan. 8-9, along with the SURREAL MC COYS. a local country outfit. Both Blackwell and Pomus wrote hits for El- vis Presley, whose birthday (Jan. 8) IS ob- served here PHOEBE LÉGÈRE, a blond bombshell who plays a couple of instruments (piano ac- cordion), gives a cocktail-hour show at six- thirty on Fridays. Shows other nights begin after (sometimes long after) nine-thirty. VILLAGE GATE. 160 Bleecker St. (475-5120)- Pianist SY JOHNSON and bassist MIKE RICHMOND are on duty in the Terrace Bar every night but Monday from ten or so. On Tuesdays, they trade sets with jazz harpist DAPHNE HELLMAN'S trio. Fridays through Sundays, from about six until nin.e-thirty, PATTI BOWN can be found at the piano, rocking and swaying I \ ì \ t j\ \\-\, 1 \\: '-P i . n \-: . I \- beneath one of her homemade picture hats. VILLAGE VANGUARD. 178 Seventh Ave. S., at 11th St. (255-4037)-People from all over the world descend the stairs to this ancient jazz club; many of them later emerge from it in an excited condition. Bassist RICHARD DAVIS leads his quintet through Sunday, Jan. 10; on Tuesday, Jan. 12, DON CHERRY arrives with his pocket trumpet (with which he sometimes constructs fleetlng, miniature melodies), his twanging African hunter's harp, and three colleagues (alto saxophonist CARLOS WARD. tuba player BOB STEWART. and drummer ED BLACKWELL) The MEL LEWIS ORCHESTRA blasts off on Mon- days. Music from ten WEST END. 2911 Broadway, at 113th St (666- 8750)-The big room in this student rest stop (Columbia U is across the street) has a non-institutional cafeteria, a bar that can seat a marching band, and a jukebox. The smaller room has tables, booths, a couple of hanging plants, and live jazz. Hard-bop trumpeter VALERY PONOMAREV heads up a combo through Sunday, Jan. 10. On Mondays, comedians stand up and fall down. Shows from about nine. ZINNO. 126 W. 13th St. (924-5 182)-If you like pictures of cows, there's a good one here, by the Britlsh painter Malcolm Morley, of some Holsteins adrift in a Turneresque landscape There's also jazz, which flows peaceably from a passageway between the front-room bar and the back-room restaurant. Pianist John Campbell and bassist MICHAEL MOORE collabo- rate through Saturday, Jan. 9, and on Mon- day, Jan. 11, JOHN HICKS and BOB CRANSHAW move in. Sundays remain in the hands of Mr Moore and guitarist GENE BERTONCINI. Music from eight every night but Sunday, when it begins at seven. JAZZ / FOLK / ROCK CONCERTS, PERSONAL APPEARANCES. ETC. JAMAALADEEN T ACUMA. KHAN JAMAL. AND DENNIS ALSTON Greenwich House, 27 Barrow St. Saturday, Jan. 9, at 8 and 10. Tickets at the door on the night of the concerts. HIGHLIGHTS IN JAzz-Bucky Pizzarelli, Sol Yaged, Marty Napoleon, Jack Lesberg, and Panama Francis and his Savoy Sultans (Loeb Student Center Auditorium, New York University, Washington Sq. S. and LaGuar- dia PI. 998-4949. Thursday, Jan. 14, at 8.) JUSTIN PAGE QUARTET-Symphony Space, Broad- way at 95th St. 864-5400. Thursday, Jan. 14, at 8. GREGG SMITH SINGERS-With the Dave Brubeck quartet, and the Long Island Choral Associa- tion. (St Peter's Church, Lexington Ave. at 54th St. 935-2200 Saturday, Jan. 16. at 8.) BOB WILBER AND HIS BIG BAND-With Joanne Hor- ton, Doc Cheatham, Panama Francis, Buddy Tate, and others, in a tribute to Benny Good- man (Carnegie Hall 247-7800 Saturday, Jan. 16, at 8.) AR.T (Unless otherwise noted, galleries are open Tuesdays through Saturdays from around 10 or 11 to between 5 and 6.) GALLERIES-UPTOWN LAURA SHECHTER-Precisionist still-lifes. Through Jan. 30 (Staempfli, 47 E 77th St.) CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG-Pencil drawings used to il- lustrate a children's alphabet hook Through 7 Saturday, Jan. 9 (Schiller-Wapner, 1 E 61st St ) GROUP SHows-At HIRSCHL & ADLER MODERN. 851 Madison Ave., at 70th St.: Paintings, sculp- tures and works on paper in which lead is used in some way-a drawing in pencil (a.k.a. black lead) by Jennifer Bartlett and a cast-lead sculpture by Roni Horn, for in- stance Through Saturday, Jan. 16. . . . MUSEO DEL BARRIO. 1230 Fifth Ave., at 104th St.: Six- ty-two paintings by thirty-four artists consti- tute a survey of Puerto Rican painting since the turn of the century. Through Feb. 28. (Wednesdays through Sundays 11 to 5.) GALLERIES-57TH STREET AREA ART AND LANGUAGE-Paintings and works on pa per from a series by this pair of British art- ists, titled "Incident in a Museum." Through Saturday, Jan. 9. (Marian Goodman, 24 W 57thSt) JOE BAscoM-Geometric paintings with glossy finishes. Through Jan. 23. (Gallery 84, at 30 W 57th St) LOUISE BOURGEOis-Drawings from 1939 to the present. Through Jan. 30 (Robert Miller, 41 E.57thSt.) PAUL CADMus-Recent figure paIntings, plus drawings and prints Through Jan. 30. (Mid- town, 11 E 57th St ) RICHARD CROzIER-Large-scale paintings of New England landscapes, including one based on Asher B. Durand's "Kindred Spiri ts." Through Jan. 30. (Tatistcheff, 50 W. 57th St.) ROBERT GOODNOUGH-Abstract paintings and sculptures. Through Saturday, Jan. 9. (Ship- pee, 41 E. 57th St.) KAREN GUNDERSON / HARVEY GORDON-An elabo- rate installation of shaped canvases depicting cumulus clouds. / Still-lifes and interiors painted on Plexiglas. Through Feb. 3. (Fisch- bach, 24 W 57th St.) HANS HOFMANN (1880-1966)-Paintings and drawings that date from 1949 to 1951. Through Jan 23 (Emmerich, 41 E 57th 5t ) JOHN HUBBARD-Abstract paintings and draw- ings based on floral subjects. Through Satur- day, Jan 16. (Armstrong, 50 W 57th St.) KÄTHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945)-Prints and draw- ings Through Saturday, Jan. 16. (Galerie St. Etienne, 24 \\T 57th St ) ALICE TRUMBULL MASON (1904-71)-Paintings from throughout the long career of this ab- stractionist. Through Feb. 6. (Washburn, 41 E. 57th St ) ANDRÉ MASSON (1896-1987)-Paintings and works on paper, mostly from the forties, when he was living in the United States. Through Jan 28. (Marisa del Re, 41 E. 57th St.) PIET MONDRIAN (1872-1944 )-Approximately forty paintings and drawings on loan from the Gemcentemuseum, The Hague. Through Feb. 13. (Janis, 110 W 57th St. Open Mon- days.) ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG-A new series of wall reliefs composed of found metal parts Through Jan. 30. (Blum Helman, 20 W 57th St.) EPHRAIM RUBENSTEIN-Recent paintings by a realist Through Jan. 30. (De Nagy, 41 W. 57thSt) RICHARD STANKIEWICZ (1922-83 )-Sculptures from the fifties and sixties Through Satur- J t- FA 812 'I